Eighth Grade

About Eighth Grade

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade is a 2018 comedy film. Its themes are social media, adolescence, identity crisis, and middle school.

Elsie Fisher takes the lead as Kayla Day, Josh Hamilton as Mark Day, Emily Robinson as Olivia, and Jake Ryan as Gabe. It runs 94 minutes and was released in January 2018.

The screenplay is by Bo Burnham. It was produced by IAC Films and Scott Rudin Productions. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States.

The Edge of Seventeen, Missing, and How to Have Sex make useful companions to Eighth Grade, all filed under coming of age, generation z, and teenage girl. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 1,728 votes and it carries a R rating.